Abstract:We examined forty-five typhoons associated with insurance losses in Japan to explicitly describe typhoon-related variables that explain insurance-loss variations.Multiple regression analysis revealed that the combination of maximum wind speed and translation speed explained more of the variation in insurance-loss size than what the regression model with maximum wind speed alone did. Using maximum wind speed and gale-area radius as explanatory variables also slightly improved the explained variance, but it was … Show more
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